Baseball interviews
Spahn let fan get a personal view of his
fastball
It wasn’t easy to come up with a nickname for a
man named "Warren," Major League Baseball’s winningest
left-handed pitcher confided as he stirred sugar into his Saturday morning
coffee with a spoon held in short, thick fingers. Read
on >>
Musial didn't need a batting coach or
an agent
In his early days, long before he retired from 22
seasons of major league ball in 1963, Stan Musial was a slender sort with his
own batting stance, one that was described as a guilty kid peeking around a
corner. Read on >>
Baseball essays
Minnesota Twins
Hrbek gives Twins
(and Gant?) a big lift
Atlantans will remember it as the big, bad guy
manhandling the good, little guy, while the man policing the whole thing was
looking the other way. Sort of like every pro wrestling bout witnessed on Ted
Turner's cable network. Read on >>
Herb
Carneal
Standing on his Field of Dreams corn patch with the
ghost of Joe Jackson leering at his movie wife, Kevin Costner is told the one
constant through all the years has been baseball.
Read on >>
Among
Twins, Bostock's death most senseless
It's the asterisk no one wants, but everyone from
Allison to Zimmerman will get. In fact, Bob Allison and Jerry Zimmerman already
have it. Read on
>>
1987
Twins: Sweet Music
Before we start peopling the story of the 1987
Minnesota Twins, let's give thanks for the collusion that occurred among
baseball owners during the 1986 off-season. Read on >>
Champagne toast to a
grand slam
Tuesday, when he throws the last duffel bag into the
back of his camper, Kent Hrbek will slam shut the door with a very satisfying
thud. If his voice is a whisper, it will be from celebration, not the humility
he wore Saturday evening. Read on >>
Another Cooperstown
About 100 kids clawed a chain-link fence, fingers
curled around the wire. Some pulled themselves higher for a better view as
their black sneakers dangled off the ground. Read
on >>
Calvin Griffith says
goodbye to Metropolitan Stadium
The license plates on the Pontiac Bonneville outside
the Metropolitan Stadium offices read CALVIN. The sign on the post in front of
the shiny blue car has been changed from "reserved" to
"revered." Read on >>
A history of the
Metrodome
The Minnesota Twins have existed since 1961, yet remain
the only Major League Baseball team to spend nearly half a century in one city
and never have a baseball stadium built for it. It's a point stadium proponents
in Minnesota - including the Twins themselves - never broached during the
Twins' 15-year effort to land a stadium, an effort that seemingly ended in
2006. Read on >>
Harmon Killebrew
Harmon Killebrew
biography
The youngest of four children, Harmon Killebrew was an
honor student in high school who batted .500 or better during each of his four
seasons of high school baseball. Read on
>>
Killebrew's road to
Cooperstown was anything but smooth
Harmon Killebrew left the safe grasp of small-town
Idaho in 1954 and overnight found himself on first base in Chicago, a
big-leaguer at age 17. That’s where the whirlwind ended..
Read on >>
The night belonged to
Killebrew
Harmon Killebrew generally enjoys a leisurely pre-game
routine when the Minnesota Twins play at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome: a
little conversation during a visit to the Twins' executive offices, a saunter
down the dugout ramp to conduct an interview for the subscription television
station that employs him. Read
on>>
Harmon
Killebrew Night on David Letterman
What started out as a five-minute film turned into
Harmon Killebrew Night on "Late Night with David Letterman."Read on >>
Crunch time: Killebrew
home run vs. Yankees
Harmon Killebrew's home run before the '65 All-Star
break was a season-defining moment. Read on
>>
Kirby Puckett
Short man, short career, big games
With Kirby Puckett's death come the accolades. Severe
illness and death bring out slaps on the back. Read
on >> Kirby
Puckett retires
Kirby Puckett replaced Minnesota-born Jim Eisenreich on
the Minnesota Twins roster one California night in 1984. When Puckett arrived
at the Metrodome for his first homestand later that May, a few folks wanted a
look at the kid who was punctuating a national story.
Read on >>
Puckett sparks '87 home
opener
Kirby Puckett showed the baseball world Tuesday night
a baseball game needs only one great moment, and that moment will bring fans
back for another game. Read on >>
General
Opening Day
Demeter might be Greek to you, but it's just a guy from
Oklahoma to me. Read
on >>
White plastic ball
can even strike out bad weather
Here in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, spring has
again been a mirage. Read on >>
World
Baseball Classic ends life on earth
George Steinbrenner's enlarging jowls stared from under
the headline that decried we would all die of the bird flu if Major League
Baseball players were allowed to play in the inaugural World Baseball Classic.
Read
on >>
Bulk rate: Steroids in
baseball
I don't know Mark McGwire's shoe size, or if his
mid-March performance before Congress a couple weeks before the start of the
2005 baseball season left him as the biggest clay-footed idol to get his name
in the Congressional Record, but they keep statistics on everything baseball,
so I'm sure we could find out.
Read on >>
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